Article: `Game' replays chess drama of Kasparov vs. machine.(Arts and Lifestyle)

Byline: PAUL SHERMAN

"Game Over: Kasparov and the Machine."

Not rated. At the Coolidge Corner Theatre.

three stars (out of four)

Was there something fishy about the victory of the IBM computer Deep Blue over chess world champion Garry Kasparov in their famous 1997 showdown? Or did the computer nerds just psych out the grandmaster?

That's the question raised in "Game Over: Kasparov and the Machine," a documentary by Vikram Jayanti ("The Guy Who Bought Mustique") that's short on investigative journalism but long on drama.

"Game Over" implicitly sympathizes with Kasparov, the intense yet humorous Russian who fought the ...

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